After work on April 18, thirty-five curious developers will visit the ff Venture Capital offices to learn about our fund and listen to technical talks by the founders and technical experts of Parsely and Movable Ink. If you’d like to join them, contact Skillfer ASAP; there may still be some openings. The NYC Startup Tour...
[Continue Reading]Tax Credits for Startups in New York State
As our federal and state government continue to worry about job creation, they’re trying their best to promote entrepreneurship. Our CFO Alex Katz just sent out a memo to our portfolio, attached below, about 2 tax credits available to companies that do business in New York State. For background, we rarely see a CPA come to...
[Continue Reading]ER Accelerator Demo Day–10 great companies
This morning, we attended a very high quality demo day hosted by Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, where ten companies pitched their ideas. (Disclosure: John Frankel and I are mentors.) This is the first session of the ER Accelerator, and they did a highly professional job. The companies were very well-coached, hitting all the necessary points. Impressively,...
[Continue Reading]Notes from PluggedIn Ventures Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable
Gregory Sanzone, an intern at Parse.ly, took details notes on today’s Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable, hosted by PluggedIn Ventures. Real Time Data Real time data is valuable in two ways, mainly. The first is that it crudely allows content providers to recognize spikes in popularity of pieces of content, so they can...
[Continue Reading]Inaugural Investor Day @ FinTech Innovation Lab
This is a guest post from our intern Franklin Bi . On Friday morning, I witnessed another volley of shots being fired from New York City at Palo Alto during FinTech Innovation Lab‘s Inaugural Investor Day. The Lab is a collaboration between the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, with support from the New...
[Continue Reading]FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011
The new FinTech Innovation Lab, an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. It attracted a very high quality crowd of senior executives from major investment banks and members of the innovation community — two groups that don’t normally mingle. One peculiar note:...
[Continue Reading]